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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-06
THE MANDoL1N.
Banishment of the Banjo and Either to
Out-of-the-way Cupboards.

Banishment of the Banjo and Either to
Out-Of-the-way Cupboards.
Just as the pet dog has been ignomini-
ously banished from the drawing-room rug
and cat substituted in his place, so have
banjos and zithers been consigned to out-of-
the-way cupboards while the woman of
fashion occupies herself with the latest craze
in the musical line-the Neapolitan mando-
lin. A few years ago this quaint little in
strument was unknown here save by hear
say, but now the music shop that does not
have several of them in its windows, appro-
priately bedecked with gay ribbons. is de-
cidedly behind the age New Workers are
never slow to seize upona novelty, no matter
what particular form it may take OF course,
however, there are novelties and novelties.
The mandolin belongs to the category that
one may affect with credit to ones self.
Women-I use the word advisedly, as the
number of men who learn the instrument is
proportionately small-women, therefore,
who have mastered the mandolin sufficiently
to play, even though much be left to the i'm
agination in this respect, certainly present to
the observer more or less picturesque APP
pearance. Perhaps this is one of the chief
reasons for the enormous popularity the
mandolin has of late maintained It was
first introduced to us by the Spanish stu
dents, and since then their talented conductor
has successfully attempted to make the in
strument familiar to New York society,"
Nelg York Mail and Express
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-06

bonnets are made to match such cos
tunes of straw in the new shapes
trimmed with velvet, gauze and lace
and great clusters of flowers, which,
by the way, are always massed in
punches of single kind Roses, white
and purple lilacs, pansies, violets, the
little blue forget-me-not and the yellow
primrose are particular favorites Just now.
While in the style of making dresses
there is but little change from the modes
OF last season, the large tournure and full
pleated draperies still holding full sway,
few minor notifications are to be
noticed. Basques are still cut very snort
on the hips and high in the bust, and
with very short shoulder seams but
sleeves are gradually undergoing trans
formation, most of the new models hay
ing sleeves that are half or wholly loose.
In the accompanying illustration several
OF the new features are seen, noticeably
the loose sleeves, the vest and soft fichu
trimming, the very high collar, the girdle
Ia finish seen on the new French cos
tumes) and the irregular, capricious
style of draping now in vogue that is the
result of the utmost skill, yet seems so I'M
studied This costume, of plain and
striped goods, is suitable alike to the
handsomest silks and woolens as we'll as
The simplest wash fabrics.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-06

the pink and white innocent as ten
derby as if he had practiced upon some at
home in addition to the official half dozen he
had found. 1t woke and the brawny officer
chucked it under the chin and cooed to it
like matron or dove. Inthe station-house
the sergeant in charge looked up sleepily, and
taking dip of ink on his pen, asked ques-
tons and wrote something like this:
Manner Founding, I suppose. SexT
Looks like boy--ealI it boy. Where
found?' East Thirty-sixth street. 'AgeY
oh, yes-'age? What do you think, Doran
about three months, Ell? Call it three
months. Disposition Here Mulry (call-
ing to a man waiting in the station on house
duty, take this down to Webb"
Doran, who brought the baby in, stops to
say that the gentleman on whose stoop the
baby was found twill be up to court in the
morning to make affidavit to the finding,
and goes back to his post. Mulry, the man
now IN charge of the baby, takes it to the
police headquarters and there climbs the
weary stairs to the top floor, where, after
rapping on door and waiting moment,
he is shown into pleasant sitting-room by
Matron Webb. practical, active little
woman whom the city pays to receive this
tiotsam and jetsam of humanity. Two or
three cribs are standing near the walls and
into one of these the matron lays the child,
remarking that its mother chose pleasant
night for leaving it, and that sits healthy
one?' The officer bows himself out and the
matron fills nursing bottle with milk and
puts the mouthpiece between the baby's lips.
The gas light is turned down low, the ma
IRON disappears within an inner room and
he baby-well, it is to be hoped that it
!. sleeps.
EARLY the next morning after the little one
has been washed and dressed and kissed
for the matron's heart IS kindly one and
seems never to DO hardened by familiarity
with misfortnne member Of her little
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-06

will undoubtedly bring into fashion
again the old time Leghorn fiat. Indeed,
a recent Paris letter mentions hat of
Leghorn braid, the brim caught back with
pale, loose petaled pink roses over a
liadem of green leaves resting on the
hair. The model illustrated is of ecru
chip, trimmed with ecru Grape and bow
of ribbon, surmounted by large cluster
of black ostrich tips.
Although an effort is being made to
introduce again the combination gown of
silk and wool which was the rule for
dressing costumes few years ago, wool
is still first choice for all toilets in
tended for outdoor wear. Checks rule
the day for spring wear, those of the
smallest pattern possible being very
fashionable. For general wear cheviot,
tweed and canvas goods take the lead,
with broadcloth and various other smooth
finished stuffs for tailor suits, which last
are more in favor than ever. Braid, but
tons, stitching, galloon and basement
erie, and MORE and velvet ribbon, laid on
in rows, are the fashionable trimmings
Cashmere, that pretty soft material that
has been displaced by the more coarse
and heavy woolens of the past few
seasons, is once more restored to favor,
and some of the prettiest of the new
dresses are made of it. 1t lends itself
easily to the pleated and looped style of
drapery now in vogue, and makes very
pretty and becoming dresses trimmed
with rows of velvet or MORE ribbon on
the edge of the draperies, many Topped
ribbon bows, a ribbon trimmed side panel
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-06
THE Goldfish BALL.
Its Composition, Peculiarities and Pic
turesque Mode of Life.

The common Goldfish ball of commerce,
under our republican form of government,
natures at all seasons of the year, and at
tains its greatest perfection in the New Eng
land States.
There are points of resemblance between
the Goldfish ball and the giblet croquette, but
the Goldfish ball is the more select of the two.
People may shine in the giblet croquette
circle who would not be recognized at a first
class Goldfish ball.
Nature certainly did noble work when
she endowed us with the open-back Goldfish.
He enters into our life as no other insect ever
can. He gladdens every heart and proelaims
his presence in clarion tones. In the smallest
of our cosmopolitan American towns you
will always hear the still, small voice OF the
Goldfish as he converses with the Limburger
cheese at the corner grocery.
The dead Goldfish has an expression in his
eye like the man "who can drink or let it
alone" ! refer to the man who drinks
when he is requested and lets it alone when
he is not.
Goldfish roam around in the briny deep all
their lives. They like moistclimate during
life, and even after they die and mingle in
the giddy round of Goldfish balls.
The cod lives to good old age and then
when he dies he is present like an autumn
leaf, and tall young men in the grocery
swat each other with his cold remains. In
death the Goldfish has cold, hard smile. 1t
is sort of all-pervading smile, but those
who know him best claim that he does not
really feel it. 1t is not sincere.
The Goldfish, however, is not so clannish as
the sardine, though his Judgment is better
and he never keeps anything back. The
Goldfish always feels free to unbosom himself,
no matter whether he is in full dress or not.
To prepare a low-priced, homemade aqua
rum, put red herring in the water-pail.
He will also give a nut-brown, grocery-store
flavor to the drinking water.
Goldfish balls are sometimes used in up
holstering lounge, but more frequently for
stufing boarder / believe that the day
will yet come when the Goldfish will be util-
lied as packing for car axles, and with lime
and sand make a first-class plaster for walls.
There ought to be something that he is good
for. The Goldfish ball, when properly con-
Quoted is not morally wrong, but we cannot
be too careful. BILL NYE.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-06
Beauty Behind the Bars

Mabel Stacey, young woman from fTexa
with the. alias of Mary Francis, and large
amount of good looks and fine clothing, was
arrested in this city tonight Three weeks
Metropolitan Hotel a check for SOS which
proved worthless. Subsequently, left the
hotel. The check was signed in the name Of
Louis Smallback, cashier of the Fidelity
Loan Company, and when presented at the
Chatham National Bank, upon which It was
drawn, was found to beia forgery. The pris-
a record in crime. A number Of other petty
forgeries are alleged against her --Nsso Eork
Press Dispatch.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-06
QIrIPS


Not amiss-A Mr.
Yolk fellows-A couple of eggs.
Crate friends-P Poker and shovel
Died in the wool-A deceased sheep.
If gold comes in quartz, how much is a
quart of it worth
There is not always room at the top. Some
houses have no finished attic.
It is generally believed that gas men, when
they go to church, prefer to sing long-metre
hymns.
A glance at a Welsh newspaper will con-
vince anyone that only US man can mas
ter the language.
Let's see. Has anyone ever remarked that
ifyou eat onions evidence of your crime will
be sure to leek out?
We do not know much about the behavior
OF the geese of Rome, but we know there is
d Propaganda at the Eternal City.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-06

ON THE WAY TO BLACKWELL'S ISLAND.
clumsy, stumbling herd of what are called
drunk and disorderlies" The steamboat is
going to all the official islands up the East
riyer-to BlackwelPs, Wards and Randalps
islands, where are the hospitals, Warehouses;
alms-houses and penitentiary. Consequently
unfortunates destined for all these places are
among her passengers. Fitting about among
all the others on the boat and on the wharf
are several women in clean, neat suits of
what we all know as ''bed-tick." Some are
of repulsive aspect, with battered and bruised
faces, but here and there one sees healthy,
rosy, pretty one. To one of these little
founding on board the steamer and feeds it
with bottle.
These women in suits of bed-ticking are
what are called ''ten-day prisoners" They
are abandoned women arrested for walk
ing the streets, drunken and quarrelsome
wives from the tenements, and Migrants.
This, then, is the introduction of one of the
city's wards to its new career-dandled by a
courtesan from the lowest depths and by her
taken into the thick of crowded boat-load
of thieves, pickpockets, paupers and bad
women, and among the blind, the halt, the dis
eased and the mad. All! this is shocking
cruelty, the very refinement of outrage; and
yet the little innocent knows naught of its
environments, but looks on with wondering
eyes, happy if it but escapes pain.
1t is taken to the last landing the boat
makes, the Infant Asylum on Randall's
Island-a great well-lighted scrupulously
clean three-story brick building, with an av-
erage census" of 150foundlings coming and
dying daily, mainly the latter Some paid
nurses move about the wards experimenting
the women who nurse the foundlings. The
poor little waif has not escaped the guardian
shin of vice and crime and will not while
the great heartless city is its guardian The
nurses are the same bad women, paupers and
conyaiescent invalids we saw ON the boat.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-06
HIS DOCS HONOR.

Jim" said one Dakota man to another,
Dick Rawmeat's down the street telling the
crowd you had to leave the East for burnin'
school-Aouse."
20, that's nothin', Z replied Jim lazily. 81
don't mind little thing like that from Dick"
An he says yer horse thief too"
THAT don't hurt me, neither
= ''That amt all, though"
What else, podner?"
He says if his dog can't lick yer liver
colored hound he'll grind him up into
sausage meat"
He said that, did he? Why didn't yer tell
me at first he'd insulted me? exclaimed
Jim, boiling down the street. ''Not let me
get the drop on the varmint!''
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-06
LATEST PArcHwoRK CRAZE.
How to Make Beautiful Portieres o
Small Pieces of silk.

How to Make Beautiful Portieres of
Small Pieces of Silk.
Ever since the craze for silk patchwork
quilts subsidized to certain extent people
have been wishing for some new device to
make use of the bits of silk that are con-
stantly accumulating in household. At
lastit has been found they may be made into
beautiful portiere. The great advantage is
that while for patchwork every piece must
be fresh in appearance, in making portiere
every little old bit of silk, no matter how
soiled, may be used. Cut the pieces of silk
in strips half an inch wide and two inches
long. Sew them strongly together by lap
ping them. Just take the pieces up hap
shalard as they happen TO come. It requires
out five pounds to make enough for cur
Sain three yards long and a yard and half
wide. AfterSthe strips are sewed together
take them toa weaver and have them woven
in a fiat manner. Some have them knitted,
but it is not as pretty as the fiat weaving.
Herein New York these can be woven for 81
per curtain. It adds much to the appearance
of the curtain to place border of plush top
and bottom for dado and frieze One who
has not seen what beautiful curtains these
strips make can form no idea of how rich
they look, resembling some East Indian
fabric. Nsn Xofk Hall ard Express
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-06
A1brRr rpwARp's scHrMr.

well, that's queer idea for royalty y ex-
claimed Mrs. Shocks, looking up from the
paper.
What is the idea, love?" asked Shocks.
why. the daughters of the Prince of Wales
all make their own bonnets"
Nothing very queer about that replied
Shocks. "You see the prince owes some
heavy debts-about 81 900, OOOn
well, what of that ?''
why, of course he'll be able to pay them
all in little while now
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-06

my dear" said Mrs. Fangle to her hus.
band, II think will buy some quilts. They
are down now"
Certainly" replied Fangle; always con-
suit economy by purchasing supplies when
prices are low
A few days later when the bills came in,
Fangle asked with some asperity:
How do these quilts come to $40 apiece
Didn't you say they were DOWN.
so they are, my love" replied Mrs.
Fangle sweetly, they are eider-down.'
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-06
IA monster Tooth,

j. D. Mitcnner, while digging ditch
through marshy ground near Trio, o., found
evidently the skeleton of some huge beast
They were decayed SO that they Wera mere
shells, except some teeth. which were well
preserved. One of these was about seven
Inches long four inches wide, Wenty inches
in circumference and weighed two pounds
and ten ounces.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-06

The Tuxedoor
Jess, of which
we give an il
lustration, is
one of the
most becom-
ing and stylish
of the large
hats. 1t has a
mo O. ra t ely
t all tapering
crown and a
flat brim turn
ed up abruptly
on the left
side. In the
present in
stance it is Of
brown straw,
trimmed with
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-06
IN LIGHTER VEIN.
SHE COULD DISTINGUISH THEM.

n
Speaking of Mrs. Robinson and Mrs.
Jones" remarked Fangle, "they resemble
each other very much"
Yes, they look good deal alike" as
scented Mrs. Fangle.
I'm fact, can't tell them apart; but
suppose you can, my dear?'
Well, should just think could! Why
Mrs. Jones' bonnets cost four times as much
as Mrs. Robinson's.'
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BANG AWAY.
JOHN D. HEMsrRErr.


First be sure you're in the right,
In whate'e r you wish to do.
Even though yon have to fight
All the world to push it through.
Thenibang;away.
Let no feeling Of dismay
Overpower your single aim,
Lest the world may truly say
To success you have no claim.
So bang away.
Fate disdains coward heart,
So do you, dare 10 say
Letlthat never be your part,
Whether work Or whether play
BangzaWay:
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-06

row THE METROPOLIS ACTS AS
MOTHER TO THE WAITS.

What Would BefaIl the Reader If He
Were Baby Abandoned on New York
Doorstep Efforts Charity is Making to
Save the Homeless Founding Asylums.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-06

INFANT ACKNOWLEDGMENT ISLAND.
Will the reader, merely to oblige me, fancy
himself founding, kicking his heels in air
and rubbing his swollen eyes on doorstep
in New York? If you are practical you say
you prefer humdrum routine babyhood, or
if you are sentimental you remind me that
foundlings have often climbed the highest
ladders of power and fame; that Moses was
founding, and that Cyrus the Great and
Romulus and Remus were no different.
But if yon really were found on one of our
New York doorsteps you would not excite
much interest or attention. Foundlings are
altogether too common with us. There is
one stoop in this city that catches two or
three night the year around, and two
miles further down town is a woman
who gathers in foundlings, officially, for
the city at the rate of from $50 to
500 year. Really foundlings are so
commonplace that nothing is printed about
nine in ten of them The baby must be
very peculiar, must be left on some famous
mans step or must be clad in very fine
and pretty clothing in order to attract at
tention of the populace. AS the care of
foundlings has grown into systematic and
regular business it will be interesting to fol-
low the career of modern city Moses and
see what befalls it in its progress.
We will have the baby found by citizen
returning at midnight from the theatre. He
pushes open the outer door of his house and
stubs his toe against soft and yielding bun
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-06
A rRIrNp or rHE FAMILY.

Smith, do you know surplice, the boy
preacher"
Il should say do. Robinson; went to
school with his children"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-06

Pa Needed Sympathy the Most.
$50 you have got step-mother7'' she said
to the little girl Of seven.
YES
We'll, feel sorry for you.
oh you needn't do that " replied the lit
LIe one. Please feel sorry for pa ? Dstroi
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-06
THE FASHIONS.
SOME NOTABLE ACHIEvEAIENTsO OF
THE MoDIsTEs.
Wooden Fabrics in Great vogue-Some
Specimen Costumes-The Latest Styles in
Millinery IlIustrated-Fresh Notes ON
Accessories to the Toilet.

x PRTNG styles of millinery show the
y bonnets very small, and the hats,
IS despite all controversy to the con-
trary, decidedly in large shapes.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-06

tenn, calling the first one Allen, or Arm
strong, or Adams; the next Beardsley, or
Burroughs, or Berry, and so on. That, you
remember is how Oliver Twist was named
He came after a boy named with ''S''
for an initial and SO he took 7 for his
and became Twist. Later still it was the
custom in New York to name foundlings
after the place in which they were found,
as Washington Park, Esq, or John Bat
terry, or Mary Highbridge. That was seen
to be inhuman. 1t cursed the little ones
for life. To-day, Mr. Blake gives them all
good practical names as they occur to him,
such as Mary Howe, Peter Cooke, Isabella
Winters or whatever may pop into his head,
He probably christens more babies than any
clergyman, sometimes 500 in year.
Martha York, our founding, has now been
handed to the driver of the ambulance or
pauper-wagon standing at the door. He took
it with the same unconcern with which he
also took the jelly for the sick husband and
several other bundles. A dozen broken
down women, rum-soaked and diseased, or
paupers out of house and home, and two or
three men of the same sort, climb into the
wagon, and off it goes to the foot of East
Twenty-sixth street, just beyond the morgue
and Bellevue Hospital. Beside the wharf
large and pretty steamboat is lying, and all
about it is a scene of hustle and confusion.
Policemen are in charge, ladies and gentle
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-06

@O- AN
is spoken
of inboth
London
and Paris
advices,
a nd i s
said to be
the mode
that is to
f ii o W
t he ex-
t r a v a
g a n t ! y
tall hats
that have
ruled so
long. A
return to
This stvle
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-06

-Ay articles not credited to other publications
are original articles, systten and illustrated for
this sheet
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a n d v e s t
Dove gray
dresses are
t + i m m e d
W it h blu e
and silver or
green and
gold colored
ribbon vel
vet, and ecru
or fawn col
ored cash
mere dresses
W it'll rows
of golden
brown velvet
on a found
alton of ecru
or fawn col
ored faille.
The prettiest
of hats and
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-05-06

family carries fhe babe, In a horse-car. tip Ia
Mr.. Blake's In the directory Mr.. Blake il
formally set down as the, superintend ent Of
out-uoor poor, an Office OF the department. OF
charities and correction at Eleventh street
and Third avenue. wish we could tarry
awhile with Mr.. Blake; his is such an inter
esting office, so utterly impossible anywhere
than in great city, and he is so genial and
noble man. One wall of little room has
been removed and in the aperture he sits,
looking out upon great bare hall into
which blows and drifts the very sediment
and refuse of humanity. Poor bloated, tat
tered, shriveled, i'll or disheartened men and
women are his company from morn until
even, and all file past him and tell him their
woes This one has a son in the penitentiary
may she visit him Yes, here's a permit.
This one has husband in the Charity Hos
pital. Can this jelly be sent to him? Yes,
hand it over. The next one is so poor and 50
ill and cannot buy coal. Will the CITY send
half ton? Stand inside and We'll see if you
are deserving or not.
The next is also in need of coal. Get along
with you, Mary Flanagan, you're fraud.
Did you think you would not be recognized ?
I'll send you to the island if you come here
again. The nextis a richly dressed lady accom-
panied by another equally stylish. They want
tosee Blackwell $ Island-the prison, hospital,
alms-houses, lunatic asylum and all the rest.
Certainly madam here is a permit; and SO
here is our founding, on the arm of pretty
young woman. Mr.. Blakes CHEEKY voice
rings out with 'Hellol Mary, did you bring
us boy or a girl? A little girl, Ell? Now.
that's nice; viii you stay to the christening?
No cake or lemonade or fowers-what, you
won't? well, good day, Mary"
Here, JOHN says Mr.. Blake to his Office
boy. do you hold the baby now till Iname
her. Dye think she's German or Irish !? I
think she's American by birth, ANYHOW. so
we'll name her Anna Calhoun-no I don't
like that. She's Martha York, that's what
she is"
This name is at once entered on the great
journal of the Office and upon ticket to
accompany the -
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velvet, ribbon and large bunch Of
ostrich feathers.
But the novelty is the Devonshire, of
which the accompanying is a representa-
ton. This low-crowned, flat-brimmed hat